Isolation, Civil Engineering and Automobile collector
Known for
Collection of 170 automobiles
Notable work
Isoterma
👩 Spouse(s)
Maria Lucia
Og Pozzoli (1930 Rio de Janeiro – 17 November 2017 São Paulo) was a precursor of Brazilian automobile collecting in Brazil from 1958 until his death. He was a pioneer in improving his family’s insulation company in Brazil, and was director of the enterprise until he died.[1]
1958 - Followed his father José Wanderley Pozzoli at Isoterma. Representative of the third generation of a family of engineers specializing in waterproofing, he took an interest in engineering. In Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, he began to work in the wholesale warehouse of his uncle's construction materials, which put him in direct contact with engineers and the building industry. His grandfather, Arthur Pozzoli, who specialized in waterproofing in England and, in the late nineteenth century, came to Brazil when the English disliked the work camp there, and his father, who waterproofed dams and reservoirs and the Martinelli Building in 1926 founded Isotherm with him.
The latitude of the city of Natal, similar to that of Dakar, in Africa, and in one of the most eastern points in Brazil, obliged Iberia flights from Europe, calling at the African country, to take a straight line at the northeast of Brazil. This coincidence made it possible for him to take courses in waterproofing in University of MadridSpain, AarhusDenmark and LyonFrance in the 1950s.
Back in Brazil, he realized that Natal would not fulfill his ambitions. Rumored, in January 1956, for the capital of São Paulo driving an Opel P4 1937 for 17 days. Except for the final 400 km, from Rio de Janeiro by Via Dutra, the rest of the nearly 3,000 km were on unpaved roads. In time, the Opel P4 1937, which brought him to São Paulo was sold. File:Opel P4, Baujahr 1936 (Sp).JPGOpel P4
The dedication to the study of the Revolution, as well as the services provided, were already recognized by the São Paulo City Council, which awarded him the title of citizen of São Paulo.
The automobile collection began, in fact, in 1958 with the purchase of a 1948 Lincoln Continental, whose high fuel consumption from the 12-cylinder and ten-year-old car made it an unattractive vehicle to most people. "A car that was worthless, but allowed me to start the collection," he said. The model was special because only five were made, and only two were left, one that served Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States (1933-1945), that now it is at the White House Museum in Washington and the other that the São Paulo government had for years, leading to tours from the 1950s to 1960s, for presidents Craveiro Lopes (Portugal), Giovanni Gronchi (Italy), Charles de Gaulle (France) and Queen Elizabeth II with her husband Prince Philip (England).
Of so many contracts that he closed in Brasilia, indicated by the architect Oscar Niemeyer, recommended his company, which even made a branch of it in the brazilian capital. In addition to the construction of Brasília, he worked with Niemeyer in more than 400 thousand m² in Algeria. Among the Brazilian works that rely on Isoterma waterproofing, the Jupiá, Ilha Solteira and Promissãohydroelectric plants stand out, among others, some stretches of the São Paulo Metro and the FAU-USP (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo). The company had the main office at a barroque house in Avenue Pacaembú 1738 in São Paulo.[2] He also isolated MASP (Museum of Art of São Paulo), because of the huge free span in concrete.
170 old automobile vehicles bought and stored in his house in Cotia, some unique in the world like a 1918 Moon 6-45 Piton Touring of PresidentWashington Luiz and others from Governors of São Paulo.
Drove some celebrities in his cars, as Queen Elizabeth II during a visit at Masp, Pope John Paul II during a visit in Brazil aboard a 1928 Chrysler Imperial model with aluminum body, for 81 Km between two cities in São Paulo and, on another occasion, he drove Princess Michiko Shoda, wife of Prince Akihito from Japan on a tour through São Paulo.
One of those stories is about the older cars in the collection, two Fiat Country Bus, from 1912 and 1914, which he refused to sell for US$ 1 million dollars to Fiat president Gianni Agnelli saying: “If I agree to sell I will continue at the same house, drinking the same wine. The only difference is not having my Fiats”.
After Life
His major dream about the cars after his death was that they would all be together. Due to Cancer disease in the rest of his life, some were sold to pay the costs of medicine and treatment, but the rest of the entire collection was bought by Lia Maria Aguiar foundation, daughter of Bradesco Bank Amador Aguiar founder, who constructed a car museum with restorationschool at Campos do Jordão and transferred the collection there for future generations' appreciation. At the deposit building at his previous house in Cotia, one of his four sons opened a restaurant. The collection was purchased on 'closed doors terms', i. e. all inside to be transferred.[3] All vehicles are in excellent conditions and running.
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